What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

AI made writing code easier. It also made being an engineer harder. ivanturkovic.com/2026/02/25/ai

Early CodeGen enthusiasts talked about "I can accomplish code while walking my dog / taking my kid to the park". Shock and surprise, capitalism doesn't work that way.

Engineers are working longer hours, doing less fulfilling work, are expected to ship faster, often after their org experiences major layoffs, and the quality of output is lower.

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ATProto has done an amazing job in terms of attracting developers with extensive documentation and easy to use SDKs/libraries.

I think ActivityPub can do this too, we're a bit more fragmented, and it does seem that individual developers can build and ship faster than the ActivityPub stewards/orgs.

So I've been working on my own take, in between my other projects, to build a powerful resource that best explains ActivityPub for devs with real code examples and demos.

It just takes one person 🚀

ActivityPub dev resource project, shipping TBA
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Sorry Brent and the half dozen other inquirers, Loops and Pixelfed is not for sale!

I'd be lost without my babies, and even though I'm scraping by financially and could really use that money, I don't think I could live with myself if I sold out.

The deserves leaders who remain ethical and loyal to building better, safer social web alternatives.

We're funded by people like you ❤️

pixelfed.org/support-our-proje

Would you consider selling loops.video...?

Hi,

My name is Brent from ******.com, the worlds largest M&A Marketplace.

Would you consider selling your business - loops.video

I've been diving into your niche and traffic ranking, and I have buyers in mind
who acquire businesses exactly like yours...

I would love to talk you through it in person on a quick call. No obligation of course.

Also, you can get a complimentary valuation here when it suits you.

Just hit reply, and let's organise a time to chat...

Take Care,
Brent
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Despite the many milestones and mistakes I've made, the fediverse has always been there for me, and even called me out when I needed it.

I really love you guys and am so thankful for the amazing community we're building together.

You've showed me what I can do when I have a vibrant support base, and I will strive to keep building better, ethical and safer experiences for everyone.

Let's make 2026 a year to remember, together 🚀

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At the moment it’s being used like opium—to alleviate the pain of thinking

Luciano Floridi sums it up nicely. He posits that AI doesn’t replace our thinking with its own thought. AI, he says, doesn’t think for us. AI doesn’t think at all. AI enables action without thinking. It allows us to perform actions that would previously have required thought.

ia.net/topics/design-as-thought
zenodo.org/records/10911814

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I didn't start Pixelfed to become rich or famous.

I started it because I wanted to prove that I could be a real web dev/programmer by taking a chance and starting my first full stack open source project.

7 years later, I'm so proud I took that step and left my automotive tech career behind to become a self taught developer.

You all have pushed me to strive to exceed expectations, helped me come out as gay, be a better project leader and learn from my mistakes.

I'm forever grateful to y'all ❤️

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How do people manage to self host, well anything, in the modern internet?

Networking stack is infinity growing and impossible to understand, all ISPs available to me use CGNATs and effectively break the two way street of the original internet, threat protection seems impossible unless you pay cloudflare....

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It remains wild that all of these tools - MCP, OpenClaw, not just the entire AI stack but the entire ecosystem - don't think that security matters at all. Validation, sanitization, authentication, none of it. Call it 'autonomous' and yolo it out there for VC clout.

There's relearning the lessons of 90's computing, and then there's the lessons of 1850s London sanitation, of Roman-era waste management. Everyone just lets their cattle shit in the town well, it'll be fine.

social.coop/@cwebber/116154573

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"I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven’t lived in blood and bone. That doesn’t mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it’s not freedom you’re after.”

Sahar Delijani

evergreenreview.com/read/an-in

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven’t lived in blood and bone. That doesn’t mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it’s not freedom you’re after.”
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